July 2016 Kabul bombing

The July 2016 Kabul bombing was a twin suicide bombing that occurred at 2:30 PM on 23 July 2016 when Islamic State suicide bombers Najib Allah al-Khurasani and Talha al-Khurasani threw hand grenades at a group of protesting Hazaras in Kabul, Afghanistan before blowing themselves up; a third attacker was killed by Afghan National Police before he could detonate his suicide belt. 80+ people were killed and 260 wounded in the deadliest attack in Kabul since 2001.

The bombing targeted crowds of Hazaras that protested the lack of electric power in Bamyan Province, where the majority of Hazaras lived. The government of Afghanistan warned the protesters that an attack could occur, and the attack indeed occurred at 2:30 PM. Najib Allah al-Khurasani and Talha al-Khurasani, two Islamic State members from Afghanistan, threw hand grenades at the protesting crowds before blowing themselves up in a mass-casualty attack. A third attacker was killed before he could detonate his explosives. The attack claimed the lives of over 80 people, while 260 were wounded. The Islamic State claimed that the attack was in response to the Shi'ite Hazara minority's support of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Arab Republic during the Syrian Civil War, with some Hazaras fighting for Iran as mercenaries of the Liwa Fatemiyoun group.